Video: Giant bronze shells. Sculptures by Marc Quinn
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cult British sculptor Marc Quinn, known for his shocking projects, once again delighted the lovers of contemporary art. The Archeology of Art exhibition is a breath of fresh sea air in the middle of the urban jungle. Mark Quinn presented to the public giant shells cast in bronze and exactly repeating the original creations of nature.
Mark Quinn has long been known to readers of the Culturology.ru site thanks to his extraordinary works: either he shocks the audience with "bloody" self-portraits, then he amazes the imagination with a sculpture of a giant child.
This time the famous master tried to compete with nature itself - he cast giant shells from bronze. According to Mark Quinn himself, the gifts of the ocean interested him, because the shell accumulates the past and the present: time "decorates" its surface with rings, and water polishes, creating a perfect shape.
The enormous size of the exhibits allows the viewer to examine the shell to the smallest detail. Bronze sculptures exactly repeat the appearance of real shells. To achieve such astounding accuracy, Mark Quinn first selected the shells he liked, scanned their images using a digital 3D scanner and based on the results he created a virtual model. The master emphasizes that the process of creation is extremely important for him, because it repeats a natural natural process: living organisms reproduce in a similar way, using the information that is stored in DNA.
Amazing shells are now exhibited in the New York gallery Mary Boone, the exposition is called "All the Time in the World", then the work will "move" to Venice and will be presented at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Sculptures by Mark Quinn really inspire admiration, and the lines from Marina Tsvetaeva's poem immediately pop up in my memory: "Sleep! Covering the seas and lands, I will embrace you with a Shell: Right and left and forehead and bottom - Shell lullaby".
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